It's all factions which really bugs me. If you want CD or Potency mods for example and don't have Jawas & Empire developed enough you had an option: settle for 1 & 2 dot. The 3-5 dots were a reward for players with a wide balanced roster. Now it's just a free-for-all and removes the resource management and attention needed to actually build 8 solid teams with different cores. Rewarding players who don't bother focusing on goals and just build one really strong team. I feel it's made the game weaker overall.
I really wanted CD mods for my FO team so I was in the middle of farming Jawas. Now any bloke who hasn't bothered farming or focusing can go out and farm the same mods I was building towards.